Brings together current theoretical insights and new empirical results to examine expert adjustment of model forecasts from an econometric perspective.
Originally published in 1972 this book examines technological forecasting and assesses its merits and limitations and possible uses for society, government, industry and the military.
Originally published in 1961, this book became widely used as a textbook, as an important source of primary data on British government expenditure statistics and as the point of departure for further empirical and analytical studies of the behaviour of governments.
In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity for home-ownership.
This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a collection of case-studies in cost-benefit analysis, of which there had been already several in use employing techniques of varying degrees of sophistication.
First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation.
Originally published in 1973, the aim of this work was to discuss the various factors governing the rate of growth of the British economy since the First World War.
The purpose of this book is to bring together, for the first time, a description and examples of the main methods used in microsimulation modelling used in the field of income distribution analysis.
After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession phase.
First published in 1913, Richard Parry's Valuation and Investment Tables has since become an essential tool for students and professionals in the study and practice of valuation and appraisal.
Set in the Northern English City of Leeds, in the midst of Liz Truss' 49 days in office, what we are now calling The Cost of Living Crisis emerges as the most recent incantation of economic decline.
Dieses Fachbuch beschäftigt sich mit der Globalisierung industrieller Produktion und den daraus entstehenden neuen Aspekten bei der Standortplanung bezogen auf die Immobilienwirtschaft.
Originally published in 1994 and the recipient of the Stonier Library Award, this volume evaluates an alternative approach - the sequential filter- to managing the uncertainty inherent in the future course of the interest rate cycle.
China is historically famous for its high demographic dividend and its huge working population, and this has driven tremendous economic growth over the past few decades.
Volumes 2A and 2B of The Handbook of Economic Growth summarize recent advances in theoretical and empirical work while offering new perspectives on a range of growth mechanisms, from the roles played by institutions and organizations to the ways factors beyond capital accumulation and technological change can affect growth.
While many discussions of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 have sought to explain the causes of the financial collapse, this volume looks to supplement these accounts by exploring possible alternatives for the post-crisis world in which we now live.
In this 37th volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott assemble a group of lead experts to showcase new historical data, analyses of historical questions, and an investigation of historians' networks.
Belief and Rule Compliance: An Experimental Comparison of Muslim and Non-Muslim Economic Behavior uses modern behavioral science and game theory to examine the behavior and compliance of Muslim populations to Islamic Finance laws and norms.
Die „Sicherheitsfibel“ wird dem Fachmann für Sicherheitstechnik, dem interessierten Laien und den Beratern in Versicherungen, kriminalpolizeilichen Präventiveinrichtungen, sowie Herstellern in der Planung künftiger Sicherheitsprodukte einen fundierten Überblick über wirkungsvolle und sinnvolle Sicherungsmaßnahmen im privaten und gewerblichen Umfeld geben.
When Mothers Talk is an intimate book about early child development and motherhood which offers an extraordinary view of the first three years of life and practical information that rarely gets talked about.
One of the main problems in current economic theory is to write contracts which are Pareto optimal, incentive compatible, and also implementable as a perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a dynamic, noncooperative game.
The US Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest and most prolific offshore hydrocarbon basins in the world with thousands of structures installed in the region and tens of thousands of wells drilled.
